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A. A. ANDERSON.

EGG HOLDER Patented June 6, 1893.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ABRAHAM A. ANDERSON, OF NEXV YORK, N. Y.

EGG-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 499,080, dated June 6, 1893. Application filed September 12, 1892. Serial No. 445,631. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ABRAHAM ARCHIBALD ANDERSON, of New York city, in the county and State of New Yorlghave invented a new and useful Improvement in Egg-Holders, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in egg holders, and it has for its object to simplify the construction of the holder for which application for Letters Patent was made by myself of even date herewith.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of certain parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures and letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the Views.

Figure] is a central vertical section through the improved holder. Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is a plan View, the head and knife being opened outward. Fig. i is a plan View of the device, the knife and head being folded inward upon the stand.

The body of the holder consists of a cap A, made practically in ring form, as it is provided with a central opening 10, which opening is preferably surrounded by a downwardly and outwardly flaring flange 11. The cap is supported by legs 12, being thus held in a horizontal position, and the lower portions of the legs are braced by a plate 13, preferably horizontally located. This plate is provided at or near the center with an aperture the wall of which is threaded, and this aperture receives an adjusting screw 14:, the screw above the brace plate having attached to it a cup 15, while thelower end of the screw is provided with a head 16, whereby it may be readily manipulated to carry the cup in direction of the cap or away from it as occasion may demand. A knife 17, is shaped in accordance with the cap A, and the knife is provided with an opening 18, of practically the same diameter as the opening in the cap, so that when the knife is carried over the cap the openings of both will be in registry. A cover plate 19, is usually employed, concealing the knife when it is in its closed or inner position, and it may be here remarked that the outer edge, designated as 17 is the cutting edge of the knife, although the inner edge may be made a cutting edge also if in practice it is found desirable. The cover plate may be given any desired exterior contour, but preferably it is made to conform to the exterior contour of the knife and the cap. The cover plate, and also the knife, are pivotally attached upon the cap, and are capable of opening out therefrom as shown in Fig.

cap or over the knife may be locked in that position by means of any approved form of catch. The cover plate has produced in it a central aperture 20, which when the plate is carried over the cap registers with the opening 10 in the latter; and the opening 20 in the cover plate is preferably surrounded by an upwardly and outwardly extending flange 21. The inward movement of the knife may be limited in any manner found most advantageous. A head 22, however, is shown as formed upon one portion of the knife in the drawings, which head serves the purpose of defining the inward movement of the knife.

This device is exceedingly simple, comprises but few parts, and an egg may he held between the cup and the cap plate, as shown in Fig. 1, being held firmly and securely; and

the knife 17 may be manipulated to cut one end of the egg, and after that portion has been severed the knife does not interfere with the removal of the contents of the shell through the central apertures in the cover plate and top ring.

I do not claim broadly in this application a frame having a cup or socket to support the egg, an apertured head to receive the upper end of the egg and a knife pivoted on the head and comprising a plate havinga circular aperture registering with that of the head and having its outer marginal edge formed into a cutting edge,since said combination isclaimed in a separate application filed by me of even date herewith, Serial No. 445,630.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1 l. The herein described egg holder, comprisin gthe frame, the egg cup or socket, the top ring to fit the upper end of the egg, the hori- 3; and the cover plate when closed over the zontally swinging knife provided with a circular egg-receiving aperture 18 and an outer cutting edge 17, and the horizontally swinging cover plate 19 also having an egg receiv- 5 ing aperture, substantially as set forth.

2. The herein described egg holder, comprising the legs 12, a vertically adj ustable egg supporting device, the stationary top ring A having a depending annular flaring flange 11 10 to closely fit the upper end of the egg, and the two superposed horizontally swinging plates 17 19 having circular egg receiving apertures registering with opening in the said ring, and a pivot securing both of the said plates to the ring; the lower plate having a marginal cutting edge 17, substantially as set forth.

ABRAHAM A. ANDERSON.

Witnesses:

E. M. CLARK, F. W. HANAFORD. 

